NIS Beginners 002 - Vacaciones en Tailandia

Hi, this is Ben here from Notes in Spanish. Just a quick note before Marina joins me for today's audio. We wanted to let you know about our real Spanish newsletter. It's one of our favorite things that we do here at Notes in Spanish. And there's over 15,000 people already. signed up.

it's really easy to join and when you do join you'll get a free report which is called how to get fluent in spanish fast it's all the tips and tricks and techniques that i used to get fluent really fast when i first started learning spanish carried on using all the way up to being bilingual in Spanish so it's a really really valuable report and apart from that we'll also send you our our newsletters which are packed with really great Spanish phrases

our latest YouTube videos and just everything you need to know to get fluent faster. So if you'd like to join the newsletter and get that amazing how to get fluent fast report. just head to notesinspanish.com slash real. That's notesinspanish.com slash real, spelt R-E-A-L. If you head there now, you can sign up quickly and then come back to today's audio.

Hello and welcome to Inspired Beginners from Notes in Spanish. Yep, welcome back. I'm Ben Curtis. I'm here with Marina Diaz. And today we've got some more real Spanish audio for you to get your teeth into. Marina, what are we going to be talking about today? Okay, today we will be speaking about holidays. We will tell you how to use the future tense in a very simple way. And we will also teach you how to explain the things that you have to do.

First of all, what we want to do every podcast is a bit of a revision from the episode before. So if you remember last week, we were asking questions about what you like to do and so on and what you do with your life and the things you like. So, how do you say what you like to do in your free time? ¿Qué te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre? So, it's ¿qué te gusta hacer? En tu tiempo libre. Okay. So, how would you say...

I love photography. Me encanta la fotografía. Okay, what about a really cool way of saying you love something, you think something's really cool. Last week I was talking about the group Radiohead. Me mola Radiohead. Let's see. Riding a bicycle in the countryside. Can anyone remember how to say that? What was it? Montar en bici por el campo.

Right. Now, it's all very well saying me encanta or me mola, Radiohead, but what if I really hate it? Now, what was that one verb that sits on its own for saying that you hate things? Odio. Exactly. Odio. For example, Marina hated chicken stock or stock in general. How would you say I hate stock? Odio el caldo. Now, even stronger than odio... Me horroriza el marisco. El marisco, yeah. Me horroriza el marisco. Horrible stuff. Okay, on with the theme for today.

Marina and I are off on holiday in a few weeks time and we're very lucky this year because we're going to Thailand and that's what we're going to be talking about today. And of course... This isn't happening now in the present. This is happening in the future. But learning all the different... Actual versions of the future tense for each verb is a bit of a nightmare. However, there's a very easy way of talking about the future in Spanish. Marina, what is it? It is using the verb to go.

is voy a and you use it with the infinitive of the verb so you don't need to know the future tense so it could be for example voy a comprar Exactly. So, the verb to go in Spanish is boy. I go. Bas. Ba. Vamos. Baís. And? Van. Okay, remember a V in Castilian. Spanish, the Spanish they speak in Spain, V's are always pronounced as a B. So instead of voy, we say boy. And as Marina said, I'm going to do something, voy a.

You're going to do something, bas, a, followed by the infinitive. So, for example, if we say when we're in Thailand we're going to see lots of temples, templos, how would we say that? Vamos a ver los templos. How about, in my case, I'm going to eat a lot. Voy a comer mucho. And if I'm going to go to the beach... Voy a ir a la playa.

Okay, exactly. So there we go. And now you can talk about the future to your heart's content. For example, imagine you want to talk about this weekend. Este, this, fin de semana, this weekend. I'm going to visit my sister. How would you say that? OK, fantastic. And finally, a question that you're going to hear near the beginning of the podcast. How would you say what are we going to do? ¿Qué vamos a hacer? So, what are we going to do in Thailand? ¿Qué vamos a hacer en Tailandia?

OK, great. Right, let's listen to part one. And remember, don't worry if you find it tricky. It'll get through by osmosis and there's always a transcript to help you along on the worksheets. Here goes. Hola, Ben. ¿Qué tal? Hola, Marina. Yo muy bien. ¿Y tú qué tal? Muy contenta. ¿Sí? ¿Por qué? Porque nos vamos de vacaciones a Tailandia. ¡Es verdad! ¡Nos vamos a Tailandia! ¡Qué bien, ¿verdad? Bueno, ¿y qué vamos a hacer en Tailandia? Pues vamos a ir a Bangkok. Bangkok es el capital. La capital.

Bangkok es la capital de Tailandia. ¿Y qué vamos a hacer en Bangkok? Vamos a ver los templos. Vamos a dar un paseo en barco por el río. Y lo más importante, creo yo, vamos a comer mucha comida tailandesa. ¿Te gusta la comida tailandesa? Me gusta mucho. A mí me encanta. ¿Y qué más vamos a hacer en Tailandia? Vamos a hacer un viajecito en moto. Un viaje en moto en el norte del país, ¿verdad? Por las montañas. ¡Qué bien! Y lo que más me gusta es ir a la playa.

¿Vamos a ir a la playa? Creo que sí. Yo espero que sí. Muy bien.

One thing you might have heard me say at the end there was, I think that was the last thing I said, which means, I hope so. It's just a useful bit of language I thought I'd point out. Now, Marina. You've got something to point out as well. Yeah. I often use a suffix, which is ito or ita, at the end of the nouns. And that means... A little thing. So, for example, I've used the word viajecito, which is a small trip. Because viaje is trip.

And you added the ito, a little trip. I think we said un viajecito en motos. En moto. En moto. A little trip on a motorbike. Yeah. I will also use in the next part poquito, which is... A little, little. This one is very complicated. Yeah, so, for example, un poco de pan. A little bit of bread. Un poquito de pan. It's a tiny bit. Yeah. Exactly. Great. Okay, now...

Obviously, when you're going on holiday, there's lots of preparations to be done. You have to do things. You have to buy yourself a backpack, for example, or some luggage. Now, how would you say, what is this fantastic way of saying that you have to do things in Spanish? Tengo que. I have to. Now, this comes from tener, to have, plus que, plus an infinitive. Okay, so the verb tener, the first part, tengo. Tenemos que comprar crema solar.

Tenemos is the first person plural. We, tenemos que, we have to, comprar, buy, crema solar, sun cream. Say it again. Tenemos que comprar crema solar. Exactly. So it's just about as easy as voy a plus infinitive, tengo que plus infinitive, to have to do something. Easy, really. You just need to learn a few other verbs. We will also be buying other things like...

For example, summer clothes. Yep. Ropa de verano. I needed some shorts, which are... Pantalones cortos. And of course we need a backpack, which is... Una mochila.

Okay, let's listen to part two. Bueno, antes de irnos a Tailandia, tenemos que hacer algunos preparativos. Sí. Entonces, ¿qué preparaciones tenemos que hacer? Preparativos. ¿Qué preparativos tenemos que hacer? Gracias. Pues tengo que comprar protector solar. Ah, se dice... ¿Protector solar o crema solar? Las dos maneras son correctas. Vale, y pues sí, el sol en Tailandia es muy fuerte. Así que vamos a comprar mucha crema.

Protectors. Protectora. Protectora. ¿Y tú qué tienes que comprar? Un problema. Es un problema. Tengo que comprar ropa de verano. Tengo que comprar... short pants and clothes. Terrible. And why is it a problem? Because I hate buying clothes. No me gusta nada comprar ropa. Es un rollo total. ¡Qué rollo! ¿Verdad? Sí. A Ben no le gusta nada comprar ropa.

A mí sí. Voy a hacer unas compras en Tailandia. Bueno, en Tailandia yo voy a comer mucho y Marina va a hacer muchas compras. Unas poquitas. Seguro. Bueno. ¿Qué más tenemos que hacer antes de irnos a Tailandia? Tenemos que comprar unas mochilas. Mochila para... Lleva todas las cosas que compras, ¿verdad? Y tengo que pedir prestado un saco de dormir. Ah, tu amiga Isabel te va a prestar un saco de dormir.

Bueno, pues, ¿qué más? Yo creo que es todo. ¿Tenemos billetes de avión? Tenemos los billetes de avión y tenemos los pasaportes. Muy importante. Tenemos lo más importante. Porque sin pasaporte nos quedamos aquí en España. Que no sería el fin del mundo. No. Bueno. Tenemos que hacer muchas cosas, pero lo vamos a pasar muy bien en Tailandia.

OK, well, we hope the second part of the audio wasn't too much. Of course, you can listen to it again. You can find the transcript in our worksheets if you need it. There's a couple of things we wanted to point out. First of all, very cool piece of Spanish. ¡Qué rollo! ¡Qué rollo! That's how I felt about doing clothes shopping. That's how I always feel about clothes shopping. What does it mean? How boring. What a pain. Yeah, but it's very colloquial, yeah.

So when your teacher sets you some homework, say, que rollo? If you have a teacher, if you're going to classes, if your wife asks you to do the washing up, whatever it is, que rollo? And you'll be sounding extremely Spanish. Okay, so that's our top piece of excellent real Spanish for today. One other thing. There's always a problem in Spanish with the...

Y la, masculine and feminine. For example... Yeah, problema is a very common one because it finishes with an A. And often foreign people think that problema is feminine. So they say la problema. Yeah, and it's incorrect. Yep, and a teacher I had very early on when I was learning Spanish told me a very good way to remember this. She said, Los problemas son masculinos. Problems are masculine.

Las soluciones son femeninas. So, problems are masculine and solutions are feminine. She was, of course, a woman, so she would say that. She was probably right. But there's lots of words like that in Spanish. For example, at the moment we're sitting on a sofa. Sofa, you'd think must be la sofa, but it is... El sofa. Another one is hands. It's not los manos, it's... Las manos.

Yeah, really, you just have to make lists and learn them. But the one that you can always remember is Los problemas son masculinos y... Las soluciones femeninas. Apparently.

So, in summary, Marina, what have we covered today? Okay, we've covered an easy way to use the future. Vamos a... We've also learned how to express the things that we have to do. Tener que... Tengo que hacer mis deberes. I have to do my homework. Yeah, with an infinitive, as we explained before. For example, tengo que hacer mis deberes, pero...

That sounds good, doesn't it? I need to do my homework, but I'm going to have a beer. Yeah, that would then be very wise. No, not really. If you've got to do some homework, you'd probably say... ¡Qué rollo! What a pain. Which is the final bit of vocabulary that we've seen today. Yep.

Well, if you want some homework, completely optional of course, then it's time to do a bit more writing in our forum, if you fancy it. Of course, totally not obligatory at all. So what could people come and write about in the Spanish section of the forum today? You can come into the forums and you can tell us what you are going to do at the weekend or for your summer holidays.

Yep. Remember last week's biggest tip. Don't worry about making mistakes. Come and write some random sentences in Spanish. And it's amazing how much you can actually learn if you do your homework. You know, feeling inspired. I thought it was a rollo. No. I used to enjoy my Spanish homework because I could look up lots of new words, but maybe I was just a swat.

How would you say that in Spanish? No idea what a SWOT is. Somebody who just is really working too hard all the time. Okay, un pelota. Un pelota. No, no, no. Un empollón. Un empollón. Okay, if you're an... Empollón, a bit of a swat, then come and write about yourself in Spanish in the forum. Okay, pelota, as you know, is the teacher's pet. So that wasn't correct. It's... Un empollón. Empollón.

Great. Okay. And remember that the audio section of today's podcast, the Real Audio, where Marina and I were speaking to each other in Spanish, is available in... the full transcript form on our worksheets, which will also have a list of today's key vocabulary, a vocab building exercise about sort of holiday vocabulary and some more super cool Spanish.

That's all available at notesinspanish.com. We'll speak to you next week. Bye. Hasta luego. Adios. Okay, just a quick bit of housekeeping before we go. The forums that we mentioned earlier are no longer open because we need the time to work on great new notes in Spanish recording projects. At the same time, we do encourage you to make the homework in a notebook for yourselves. This will really help your Spanish to...

Yeah. And remember, of course, do get the worksheets to go with today's episode and all the episodes in this series. As we mentioned, they'll make an enormous difference to your Spanish confidence and your Spanish fluency. So do go and check those out. in our store at notesinspanish.com Hasta luego Adios

Thank you so much for joining us for this audio. We really hope you enjoyed it. Just a quick note to remind you, make sure you sign up for our Real Spanish newsletter. It's one of our favorite things here at Notes in Spanish. There are over 15,000 people signed up already. easy to join and when you do join you'll get our free report how to get fluent in spanish fast which is all the techniques that i use to get fluent

really fast when I first started learning Spanish and which helped me actually all the way up to being bilingual. So these are the key things that you need to know. So to get that report and to join our newsletter where we'll send out regularly newsletters with great Spanish phrases, news of our new YouTube videos, any new audios, basically all the exciting things you need to get really fluent in Spanish.

Just head right now to notesinspanish.com slash real, spelled R-E-A-L. That's notesinspanish.com slash real. Head over there now, join our newsletter, get the amazing report and here's to your fluency. We'll see you soon.